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Do You Know This Bird? Use this illustration of a California condor to observe its features and make inferences about its behavior and habitat. In the first column, make a list of your observations of ...

Bayesian inference provides a robust framework for combining prior knowledge with new evidence to update beliefs about uncertain quantities. In the context of statistical inverse problems, this ...